Rebecca Skloot
American science writer who specializes in science and medicine
american women non-fiction writers
Dava Sobel
American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics
Rebecca Solnit
American writer
Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Dawn Powell
Award-winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer
Dorothy Parker
American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles
Nancy Pearl
American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library
Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian
Zora Neale Hurston
American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker